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SVG has been called a quantum leap in Web imaging. This new vector-based format brings the rich, high-resolution graphics seen in printed catalogs and magazines to the Web, for the first time. Since SVG is written in XML (eXtensible Markup Language), these 2D graphics can be widely viewed and exchanged. Both SVG and XML are formats defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). SVG viewers will soon be built into all Web browsers; users will not need to install a plug-in to view SVG data.
ILOG supports SVG
ILOG's JViews Component Suite is one of the first commercial products to support SVG. ILOG has been an early SVG supporter through its membership in the W3C SVG working group and its participation in the Batik SVG Toolkit effort.
ILOG JViews Component Suite 4.0
JViews allows fast creation of high-quality graphic displays. Adding SVG contributes greater levels of interactivity, better quality graphics, faster response times and quicker screen updates. This powerful suite of 2D libraries and tools includes the first prebuilt user interfaces that support SVG input and output. Clients can be deployed as Java applets and applications, as "thin" DHTML clients and as SVG clients, which are more interactive and portable. JViews Composer allows editing and publishing of SVG files, including "living" data-aware displays.
Batik SVG Toolkit
To accomodate SVG's expected broad adoption by developers, ILOG and three other companies (Sun Microsystems, Eastman Kodak and CSIRO Australia) have designed the Batik SVG Toolkit. An open-source, Java-based toolkit for building SVG images into applications, Batik is freely available from the Apache Software Foundation.
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